Theme Of Never Cry Wolf

Never cry Wolf is a book about Farley Mowat’s experiences throughout the Keewatin barrens. The central theme is “the truth lies behind the stories of society” Farley was informed of the dramatic decline of caribou and was told to prove that the wolves are responsible before his expedition, he and his superiors felt very educated on the behavior of wolves. On page nine the author stated “because their grievance is the complaint that the wolves are killing all the deer,and more and more of our fellow citizens are coming back from more and more hunts with less and less deer.” Also, nearly all of the northern Canadian population agreed that wolves were a nuance and should be destroyed. Once Farley Mowat finally made it out of Churchill and into the north he obviously went in with a biased mindset towards the wolves, however once Farley

On page seventy two the author said “The wolves of wolf house bay, and, by inference at least, all the barren land wolves who were raising families outside the summer caribou range, were living largely, if not almost entirely, on mice.” As far as Farley was concerned the wolves were definitely not the main cause of the rapid decline in caribou, in fact many things pointed strongly against that speculation. However, late in the story some of the locals went to Mowat with “proof that the wolves are killing the caribou, and what he saw was a grim scene, there were nearly twenty dead caribou spread across the ice. Most people jumped to the conclusion that the wolves were responsible, however upon further investigation Mowat concluded that this was the work of fur and deer traffickers who shot the caribou from their plane and took what they wanted. This is obviously not what people expected to hear, however this is a vital part to ensure the safety of the arctic wolf, in the Canadian